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Germany on Sunday to vote, all possible coalitions
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24 September 2021 Germany at the polls on Sunday for the renewal of the Bundestag.
The most populous country in the EU stands to vote with 60.4 million entitled, 31.2 million women and 29.2 men.
Of these 2.8 million young people will be able to cast their vote for the first time, having a total of 47 parties to choose from.
The German electoral system provides for two votes: the first is for direct mandate to the candidate of one of the 299 constituencies in which the Federal Republic is organized, while the second vote is for the party. In 2017, the Bundestag elected 709 deputies but the number varies, according to a complex mechanism of representation. To cast a deputy in Parliament, each party must exceed the threshold of 5% of the votes. A measure established to avoid the excessive fragmentation of the political structure and the risk of ungovernability: Linke, which in the survey of voting intentions is given at 6%, risks being left out.
German citizens will have until Sunday at 4 pm to vote for the legislative bodies and the first exit polls will arrive around 6 pm This year the big news, also caused by the coronavirus pandemic, is the postal vote.
Federal Commissioner for Elections Georg Thiel said that the vote by correspondence could be more than double compared to the previous elections, ie more than 40%.
In 2017, the CDU was the most voted party with 32.9% of the votes, while the Social Democrats of the SPD recorded their all-time low at 20.5%.
The ultra-right party Alternative fuer Deutschland (Afd) ranked third with 12.6%, while the liberals of the FDP stopped at 10.7%, Linke at 9.2% and the Greens at 8.9% .